MRSA Notes

As a nail tech myself, I have been very interested in the infections received by people getting pedicures over the last decade.  This is the first article about it that I have seen that says MRSA, although that is what I have thought it was all along.  My advice, again, from a nail tech, is not to get pedicures in salons, honestly, because the plumbing in any kind of unit with any sort of water movement whatsoever is virtually impossible to sanitize.

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas | WFAA.com | Top Stories

UNIVERSITY PARK — Pedicures are meant to be a relaxing treat. But some women who said they got pedicures at Beverly Hills Nails on Lovers Lane in University Park said after the pampering, they got pain.

Just days after Patricia Hall got a pedicure last month, something strange appeared along her shin bone.

“When I noticed the bumps, they started getting bigger,” Hall said. “All of sudden, my legs started hurting.”

Hall is among several women who confirmed to News 8 that after they got pedicures in whirlpool foot spas at Beverly Hills Nails, skin infections broke out on their legs.

Dallas County Health and Human Services confirmed there is a complaint against the salon.

Beverly Hills Nails manager Victoria Tran said state regulators came in and took water samples for tests that are not yet back. “But we’re not 100 percent sure that it’s from unsanitary of the whirlpool, or if it’s caused by something that they have done or happened before,” Tran said.

An aggressive bacteria can grow quickly in water if a whirlpool foot spa is not cleaned frequently.

The bug enters the skin through shaving cuts or abrasions. The infection leads to painful lesions that can last for months and leave scars.

Doctors call the drug resistant staph bacteria MRSA—methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus.
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Bacterial infections can lead to painful lesions.

“It can be really bad,” said Dr. John Carlo, chief epidemiologist for Dallas County. “In fact, last year we had two deaths in the community of healthy people that have died from MRSA. It’s a very serious situation.”

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